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I suggested that joy and its expression could never be locked up behind the circular fence behind which humanity hides itself in countless ways from its own universal world. "Joy unfolds from the sublime in the universal domain," I said. "It is too broad and too wide to fit behind any fence, even if the fence is gold-plated, as in mysticism, nationalism, idealism, religiosity, or imperialism. Love and joy, like Truth cannot exist in the small, but requires all mankind to be a part of it, and reflect it in its boundless development." I told Sylvia that Helen went so far as to define the universal economic development of mankind as the core element of our joy.
"I think our life should reflect that joy," I said to Sylvia. "It should be as thoroughly joyful as Mozart's music in Figaro for an outpouring love, or as Beethoven's violin concerto and his piano sonatas, or his grand symphonies. I think our life has been far less than that. Granted, one doesn't find the same passion in the Beethoven violin concerto that one finds in the great Mendelssohn violin concerto, but one finds an exquisite gentle beauty in its design that takes one beyond mere passion to something higher that is sublime though it doesn't quench the passion, but rather heightens it. Nothing is overpowering in the Beethoven concerto. Still it is immensely powerful, and it represents the powerful state of peace and joy, and love unfolding from the Principle of Universal Love. That's how our life should be, Sylvia, unconfined, no matter how precious the confinement may seem to be. When this unfolding happens, one is more likely to be sensitive to the greater things. We need to become sensitive to one-another on a higher level and on a much broader scale, on the universal human scale, on the level of honesty with ourselves and one-another, on a level of generosity, even universal love, or else we and humanity cannot survive. For this to be possible we must win the Three Thousand Years War."
I stopped for a moment.
"We can win the Three Thousand Years War with the Principle of Universal Love," I continued. "On this victory we can also win the Three Hundred Years War of the Venetian imperial complex against mankind. We mustn't shirk away from the responsibility of winning those two wars and the smaller wars that came out of them, like today's Thirty Years War. So far we have done nothing except to allow ourselves to be beaten back. In the background to this failure the imperials escalated their attack on mankind. That became the new Thirty Years War of cultural warfare that may soon turn into a Three Years War of psychological insanity to be followed by a Three Days War of nuclear holocausts all over the planet. We have to break that sequence by which we are doomed. Things have become too critical, Sylvia, for one to sit idly by."
Sylvia responded by shaking her head again.
"I am totally serious," I said. "I have seen the evidence in East Germany. Nuclear war is on the agenda. The Soviets are serious. The preparations are under way. The Ogarkov plan is real. To say that the danger is very great is an understatement. So, who is going to prevent this terrible tragedy if humanity doesn't give a hoot to break the sequence that leads to war? The Ogarkov Plan may not succeed. The Soviet Union may collapse before the Ogarkov plan can be carried out, but the sequence to war will continue until that entire escalating sequence is stopped."
Sylvia nodded slightly, but still remained silent.
"There is nobody besides humanity on this planet that can do this," I continued. "There stands nobody above us who can wave a magic wand to banish war. If there were, the magic wand would have been waved long ago. We have no choice, Sylvia; we must accomplish this task by ourselves. As I said, we must re-humanize society. And more than that, we must humanize society more profoundly than ever before and create a New World in the process. We must do whatever it takes to get us out of this mess that we've become trapped into. We must face reality and take whatever steps are needed to eliminate the danger to our existence, no matter how hard the task may appear. This includes everyone, you and me too. We are humanity, Sylvia. We are a part of humanity. No heroes will be riding to our rescue in the morning light, as in the movies, and take this responsibility from us. No Martians will come and intervene to aid us. Humanity has to rescue itself. Each person has to help with his or her own contribution towards building a broader base for living, for taking away our divisions. We all share the responsibility that comes with living on this planet. If the Principle of Universal Love empowers us to get us out of our narrowly focused encumberment and enables us to see the world on a broader basis, than that's a reasonable start, don't you agree?"
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